Writing comedic headlines, or even making people laugh, was never a professional goal for Cole Bolton. After studying economics at Brown University, Mr. Bolton moved to Chicago in mid-2004, and began working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – first as an intern then as an associate economist.

But with the excel spreadsheets and auto-sector maps not providing enough job satisfaction, Mr. Bolton decided submit some headlines to The Onion, the popular mock newspaper that began in Wisconsin in 1988 and went fully digital in 2013.

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